Chapter 13158 — New Year Money Is Better Kept by the Adults

Wei Zhao was taken aback. "You're giving it to me?"

Mo Erliang shook his head. "You hold on to it for me for now. I can't use it at the moment."

The others around them were speechless for a moment. "Are you really just a child? Having the grown-ups hold your New Year money for you?"

But teasing aside, no one found Mo Erliang's move surprising.

The thing's core ability came down to a single feature: that presence so absurdly faint it beggared belief...

Yang Ge, listening, also felt it seemed rather unworkable. She had heard a few things about this Second Prince; in deed he was even more ruthless than King Huiyi, yet he happened to be a man utterly without strategy—a hopeless case no one could prop up. If, before the scheme could even begin, the Second Prince were cut down by Huiyi's army, that would instead do King Huiyi a tremendous favor.

When the great powers of the world made their move to snatch the peerless sword, it was because the blade had no master yet. Once the peerless sword fell into the hands of one side, the other powers, presumably, would not press the matter too far. After all, the war to seal the gods and destroy the demons was at its height, and no one wished to squander their own strength.

"Driver, these days people with your kind of angry-young-man spirit are truly rare—how admirable!" Liu Xing said, looking at the cabbie beside him.

"Master, the steward asks whether you will dine now. It is ready and waiting for your word." Fushu came in and called out, and Gu Yang'e waved a hand to have supper brought.

Lady Xie had said she was coming to raise the matter, yet now that the moment had arrived, she simply could not bring herself to say it. The imperial edict had only just come down, and to speak of such a thing now—Old Madam Xie, who still possessed a sense of shame, naturally had no idea how to begin.

After Huang Long left, Zhang Wei again sent his wife out to buy groceries. Dongmen Qing thought to himself, "Could he be deliberately sending everyone away? Why would he do that?" His face showed nothing, but his hand slipped into his bundle and gripped the dagger tight.

Old Madam Xie was struck dumb on the spot, staring blankly at the two of them. Jiang Xingyu stood with brows lowered and eyes downcast, teeth gently biting her lower lip, looking as aggrieved as could be—yet stubbornly holding back her tears, holding herself upright as though she refused to fall. Seeing this, Xie Junrui could no longer care about anything else.

But the situation before him truly did not permit optimism. Outside, fierce enemies eyed them like tigers; within, his own people were riddled with problems. He now felt himself caught in internal strife and external threat alike, grinding through each day in bitter endurance.

"Then why are you in such a hurry to eat? Am I really less tempting than this meal?" Xia Yu said, looking at Liu Xing.

It was no fool. At this moment it finally understood that it had encountered a terrifying being, and so it hastily turned about and tried to flee.

Meanwhile, as the human-faced lion monster vanished, the people outside, one after another, opened their eyes.

She was right on every count: a sheep had no need of a wolf, and she had no need of him, the Demon Lord at all. This so-called meeting of old friends in a foreign land was nothing but his own one-sided imagining. Perhaps the Hero was laughing inside even now, calling him a fool.

Jia Xu secretly memorialized the emperor again: "Li Cui is greedy and without strategy. His soldiers' hearts are faint with fear now; we may bait him with high rank and lure him into the trap." The emperor thereupon issued an edict naming Li Cui Grand Marshal.

"Dou Li, I'll be taking your spatial ring." Li Yunyun pulled the spatial ring from Dou Li's hand and slipped it onto her own finger.

Xiao Xuan looked at the Wang family's ransom and felt a thousand emotions surge within him, even a touch of inexplicable accomplishment. He could not help sighing, secretly wondering whether Yang Hao's ways had led him astray as well. Shaking his head, he ordered men to carry the gold and report to Yang Hao.

Just as Mo Qiankun commanded those beside him to speed up control of the warship and give chase, he was suddenly surrounded by countless carrier aircraft appearing from all sides. Gazing at the swarm of aircraft before him, Mo Qiankun's first thought was to destroy them all.